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By the time you receive these notes, written the first week of April, our 55th reunion will be history. And you probably will have received from Milt McInnes a report on the festivities and a list of those who finally attended. God willing, my own report in the September mag will provide some filler, to the extent permitted by my 600-word limit.

Our champion communicator, Lee Chilcote, is my source of information on a few who did not expect to attend: Dick Royce, still living in Cleveland, left Dartmouth in his first semester because of illness and was not interested in the reunion. Chuck Kimball, though he attended Dartmouth only one year, is a regular contributor and has attended a dozen or so Dartmouth Alumni Colleges but didn't plan to return for the reunion. Randy Fawcett's plans were iffy because of lung cancer and chemotherapy, but he hoped to be there if his health permitted. Bob Dunlap, with Parkinson's, was unable to attend, and the Joe Placaks also seemed unlikely to attend because of Edna's health.

On a happier note, our Veep Super-Chief- in-Residence, Burt Crandell, and Ruth celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in February with a dinner party for 55, given by daughters Jane and Gail at their winter home in Eleuthera, Bahamas. They anticipated their real March 23 date by a month to permit the attendance of vacationing grandchildren. Guests included Jane's husband, Dr. John Gross, and their two children, Gail's two children, and Bernice Holmes, widow of EdHolmes, who was Burt's best man. Two more grandchildren, one of them Dartmouth '89, were to join the Crandells in March to be there on the 23rd.

A clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of Pete Callaway, reports the induction of Pat Weaver into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, in the select company of Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar, and Walter Cronkite, and, posthumously, Rod Serling, Ed Sullivan, and Joyce Hall. Another Wah- Hoo-Wah for Pat!

A couple of months ago I mentioned the round-the-world trip of traveling Chuck andBobbie Jacobs. That proves to have been an oversimplification, as part of their summer travels will include the Dartmouth Rhine Trip, a 17-day cruise to South Africa, a ride on South Africa's Blue Train, and a tour of the Kenya game reserves. What comes of all this, beside fun? Well, two of their new books have just come out: Great Rail Trips ($10.95) and Europe Travel Digest ($9.95). Wish I had room to list the contents of the former.

Congratulations to Jim and Jane Dalglish on the recent marriage of their daughter, Meredith. Meredith has her master's in ceramics and art from Claremont College and has been curator and director of the Ibis Fine Arts Gallery in Pasadena. The groom is Jerry Beebe, an artist at Claremont.

And now, while we skip a couple of months, I want to give you a little homework for those hot summer days:

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